Prayer Conference Aims to Ease Widespread Misery
The document argues for broad-based prayer and action to relieve misery among the industrious classes. It notes many attenders could not join the conference but remain attentive to the cause and insists on the moral impact of thousands of churches praying for relief from hindrances to daily bread.
Impugners of Church Rites and Government Censured
The text declares excommunication ipso facto for any who say the Church of England rites are wicked or anti Christian or who deny the government by archbishops and bishops. Excommunication lasts until repentance and public revocation of errors.
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Church of England
Parish rate meeting in Leicester church voices dissent
A Leicester parish meeting to set a church-rate heard dissenters led by a Baptist minister argue there is no law compelling payment. The meeting adjourned with dissenters declining to vote as the rate was passed amid jeers.
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St. Martin, Leicester
Sons of the Church Militant
John David Jackson
Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry
Churchwarden
Eames
Moxon
T. Stevenson
General Baptist
Shardlow
Joseph Nunneley
Shaw
Braintree
W. Baines
Barrow-upon-Soar
Leicestershire Mercury
Wakefield
George Craven
Stattar
Cowell
Craven
Shenton Mallet
London
Shepton Mallet
Low Harrogate
Bearsted
Kent
Court of Arches
Chelmeford
Burslem
Staffordshire Potteries
George Baker
Joseph Alcock
Thomas Brindley
William Edge
John Maddock
Joseph Hall
Kennedy
1. S. Mercury
Hall
Maddock
Edge
Mitchell
United States
Cheltenham
Lord Segrave
House of Commons
House of Lords